Mission and Goals | About | USF St. Petersburg Campus

Oops, Page Not Found | USF St. Petersburg Campus

Student Services | USF St. Petersburg Campus

Campus Computing | USF St. Petersburg Campus

Overview | Academics | USF St. Petersburg Campus

Resources | Student Life | USF St. Petersburg Campus

Housing and Residential Education | USF St. Petersburg Campus

Accreditation | About | USF St. Petersburg Campus

Overview | Leadership | USF St. Petersburg

Admissions | USF St. Petersburg Campus

Forms should always contain a submit button, otherwise some people using
accessible technologies may not be able to submit the form.

Submit buttons are `<input>` elements with a type attribute of `submit` or
`image`, or `<button>` elements with type `submit`. 

## Rationale 

Many users expect to be able to press enter in a form to submit it. However,
this is not always possible.

Users of some assistive technologies may (depending on the technology) only
be able to press a button to submit the form. In the absence of a submit
button, the user may not be able to submit the form.

In addition, the absence of a submit button suggests that the form may 
provide an automatic 'change of context', i.e. major change to the user 
interface without the user choosing to do so. This can be highly disorientating
to some users.

## Further reading

See [Technique H32](https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H32.html).

form-submit-required

June 2025

May 2025

USF St. Petersburg

Title / URL	Issues
Mission and Goals \| About \| USF St. Petersburg Campuswww.stpetersburg.usf.edu/about/mission.aspx	1
Oops, Page Not Found \| USF St. Petersburg Campuswww.stpetersburg.usf.edu/invented-url-for-404-page	1
Student Services \| USF St. Petersburg Campuswww.stpetersburg.usf.edu/student-services/index.aspx	1
Campus Computing \| USF St. Petersburg Campuswww.stpetersburg.usf.edu/resources/computing/index.aspx	1
Overview \| Academics \| USF St. Petersburg Campuswww.stpetersburg.usf.edu/academics/index.aspx	1
Resources \| Student Life \| USF St. Petersburg Campuswww.stpetersburg.usf.edu/student-life/resources/index.aspx	1
Housing and Residential Education \| USF St. Petersburg Campuswww.stpetersburg.usf.edu/student-life/housing/index.aspx	1
Accreditation \| About \| USF St. Petersburg Campuswww.stpetersburg.usf.edu/about/accreditation.aspx	1
Overview \| Leadership \| USF St. Petersburgwww.stpetersburg.usf.edu/about/leadership/index.aspx	1
Admissions \| USF St. Petersburg Campuswww.stpetersburg.usf.edu/admissions/index.aspx	1

Add a submit button to all forms

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